Sébastien Proulx is Associate Professor of Design, Coordinator for the industrial design major and Co-Director of the DESIS Lab at The Ohio State University. He holds a PhD in Design and a Master of Applied Science in Design and Complexity from the University of Montreal. He completed postdoctoral studies in public health at the Institut de Recherche en Santé Publique de l’Université de Montréal (IRSPUM) and a doctoral fellowship in political and moral sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (EHESS).
Publications
- “Questioning the Nature of Design Activity Through Alasdair MacIntyre’s Account of the Concept of Practice”
- “Deliberating as a Public Representative or as a Potential User? Two Complementary Perspectives that Should Inform Health Innovation Policy”
- “Designing for the Vulnerable: MacIntyre’s Concept of Proxy as Ethical Framework”
- “Manifeste pour le renouveau social et critique du design”
- “Technologies of the self in public health: insights from public deliberations on cognitive and behavioural enhancement”
- “Qualities of Public Health. Towards an Analysis of Aesthetic Feature of Public Policies”
- “Le design à l’épreuve du concept de pratique”
- “A Political Reading of Design. The Case of Orientation”
Education
Postdoc in Public Health, IRSPUM, Université de Montréal
Ph.D. Design, Université de Montréal
M.A.Sc. Design and Complexity, Université de Montréal
B.F.A. Graphic Communication, Université Laval
Expertise
Industrial Design
Social Design
Design Studies
User Experience
Moral Sociology